(...) Skeletons of two Alaskan porpoises, Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus) and Phocoenoides dalli (True), have recently been mounted in the United States National Museum. Before these skeletons were placed on exhibition…
On March 9, 1937, a harbor porpoise (Phocaena phocoena) that had been found dead the previous day on Rockaway Beach, San Mateo County, California, was brought to the Department of…
(...) Records have been published of three specimens of Phocaena dioptrica, all from the South Atlantic region. The type was described by Lahille (1912) and was a pregnant and therefore…
(...) The Dall porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli (True), occupies a rather restricted range in the northern Pacific. On the American side this extends from the Aleutian Islands to Santa Barbara Channel,…
(...) In the summer and fall of 1947 and the fall of 1948 the Fish and Wildlife Service research vessel Black Douglas cruised in waters from Vancouver Island, British Columbia,…
The writer has examined nine porpoises and two dolphins collected 1950-1952 along the west coast of North America between southern California and the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Unless otherwise noted, the…
(...) During the first months of operation (March, 1954 to Sept. 1955) of the new oceanarium, Marineland of the Pacific, we have had numerous opportunities to observe the dolphins and…
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On March 18, 1950, a single bleached skull of the porpoise described in this paper, was found by the senior author, on the beach above high tide line, along the…
(...) For five years we have systematically gathered information of every available kind related to these animals. Fifteen species have been observed in sufficient detail to be considered here. These…